Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAnimals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
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